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FOOD SERVICE Lisa DiMartino has rejoined Harrison's Wine Grill & Catering as the catering sales manager. DiMartino has a degree from Johnson and Wales Culinary School and one from Penn State's Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management School. She has been in restaurant management previously at Maggiano's Little Italy in King of Prussia and Cleveland and Starbucks in Seattle. BANKING Donita Koval, president and CEO of Omega Bank, was recently named one of the top 100 people for 2006 by Pennsylvania Business Central, a business newspaper covering central and western Pennsylvania. Koval, who took over as CEO of Omega Financial Corp. last year, started at Omega Bank in 1987 as a credit analyst. U.S. Banker, a financial industry publication, named the Centre County resident to its 25 Women to Watch list, a national ranking, and she was one of eight female CEOs featured in the March 2007 issue of Community Banker magazine.
Wheeler's senior golf quartet are tops on the links, in the classroom
UNION TWP. | The word perfection has many definitions and comes in many forms. To be perfect in the classroom is to never miss a question. To be perfect on the golf course is to never miss a putt.While the senior members of the Wheeler girls golf team might not be perfect, they certainly strive to be, and they are pretty darn close.Not only do Vanessa Ryan, Jessica Marek, Taylor Ruby and Christine Deek thrive on the links, the four players are amongst the top scholars in their senior class, with three of them ranking in the top four."They are all kind of perfectionists," Wheeler coach Mike Lyons said. "But sometimes in golf you can't be a perfectionist, you can't dwell on the bad shot."Perfectionists will leave the classroom after a test, grab the nearest textbook, hoping to see that they got all of the answers right.Perfectionists will walk off the golf course, immediately jump on to the team bus, grab the nearest textbook, hoping to gain more knowledge."It's nice to have a team that is academically strong, so we always have a support system," Ruby said.
Overseas medical degrees to be recognised
CHENNAI: India will recognise postgraduate medical degrees offered by universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore soon. "In three months' time, doctors from these English-speaking countries will be recognised here, enabling them to work in Indian hospitals. At the moment, only unilateral recognition has been accorded. We are talking with these countries to urge them to grant bilateral recognition to enable Indian medical degrees to be recognised abroad," Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss told reporters on Sunday. He was inaugurating the Dr. A. Ramachandran's Diabetes Hospitals and India Diabetes Research Foundation. India was moving from being the epicentre of the Big Three diseases — HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis — to the Big Five diseases — diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, mental health disorders, stroke and cancer.
Schools told to fight fat, dump junk food
THE NATIONAL Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked all state governments to tell the schools to ban junk food and beverages, encourage students to eat a nutritious diet and promote physical activity. On the eve of India's 60th Independence Day, the commission issued guidelines on food and nutrition in schools given the rising incidence of child obesity, mainly in urban India. The state governments have been asked to prepare nutrition standards for schools that reflect cultural diversity of students, their food preferences and special dietary needs. The district administrations should set nutritional and portion size limits on all competitive food and beverages, the guidelines said. Commission member Sandhya Bajaj said schools must regularly monitor the growth of students and take remedial steps where a deficiency is identified.
100-mile race tests Parkites' endurance
When Treasure Mountain Middle School teacher Duncan Orr limped into his classroom after completing the Wasatch Front 100-Mile Endurance Run 12 years ago, Lauren Adams didn't cringe at his pain. "I remember seeing him in agony after [his race] and thinking it was neat," she confesses. Now an adult, with four 100-mile races to her credit, Adams traces the roots of her own commitment to running to her old teacher. The former collegiate runner says she'll think of him when she enters her first Wasatch Front race on Sept. 8. "This is one race where I'm just hoping to have fun," she says. Putting in the hours means an early start to the day. Adams rises at 4 a.m. But the running addict never feels the need to sleep in. "I love it," she insists. To prepare for the ultra-marathon, Adams trains about three hours a day, completing her run before working at White Pine touring.
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